Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Square's flesh palaces. While some of these settings no longer look as they did in Lowry's day, Director Brittain wisely sacrifices strict factual accuracy to the greater cause of establishing an emotional texture for his story. The atmosphere is further enhanced by Richard Burton's eloquent recitations of Lowry's prose on the sound track...
...Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean for Radcliffe College, appeared oblivious to the controversy surrounding the proposed gymnasium...
Radcliffe is approximately three weeks away from completing the design for the proposed complex and will apply for a building permit when it is completed, Burton I. Wolfman, administrative dean for Radcliffe College said yesterday...
...Kesey, Shaffer wonders whether madness may be a greater virtue than sanity in a sterile modern world. In Equus, madness is personified by Alan Strang (Peter Firth), a pretty, blond youth whose sexual desire for horses drives him to blind them; sanity takes the form of Dysart (Richard Burton), a repressed psychiatrist charged with curing Alan of his antisocial passion. In this confrontation between a virile equussexual and an impotent prune, can there be any doubt as to who will emerge the moral victor...
...exchanges between Equus 'antagonists are scarcely more exciting. Firth's performance, seemingly so natural in a theater, looks artificial in closeup. Burton provides a curiously bland Dysart who lacks the high-pitched emotional constipation that both Anthony Hopkins and Alec McCowen brought to stage productions. Lumet tries to save the day by flooding Burton's speeches with melodramatic lighting and music, but no such makeshift remedy can cure Equus of its congenital limp. - Frank Rich